Yehoash did what was upright in the eyes of the Almighty all his days, as Yehoyada the Kohen taught him.” Rashi: ‘All his days, as Yehoyada taught him’ — But once Yehoyada died, then ‘the officers of Judah came to prostate themselves to the king’ (II Chronicles 24:17), and they deified him. They said to […]

Rabbi Yehoshua was so offended by Yeshu’s predilection for the physical beauty of a married woman that he excommunicated him. Yeshu gave up trying to return to gain Rabbi Yehoshua’s forgiveness and turned instead to establishing a renegade religion.

I recall a number of years ago, while learning in the kollel at Yeshivas Toras Moshe (for a time underneath the guidance of Rabbi Moshe Twersky, Hy”d), a conversation I had with another great sage who taught at the yeshiva, Rabbi Michel Shurkin. Rabbi Shurkin is famed as a close disciple of both Rabbi Yosef […]